"the piano tuner never shows up..." more

[James Grebe]

Hi Dick,
The ad probably continued because the widow could not get the number changed
without having the phone company tell everyone that the number was no longer
in service.  That is one of the problems with just having 1 phone, a bus
line.  The phone company jealously guards that extra profit.  The 4 years
would have given her plenty time to establish service under her name so her
friends could find her.
James Grebe
R.P.T. of the P.T.G
pianoman@inlink.com
Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups and Practical Piano Peripherals in
St. Louis, MO
-----Original Message-----
From: Pianotoone@AOL.COM <Pianotoone@AOL.COM>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: "the piano tuner never shows up..."


>In a message dated 10/27/98 6:16:35 PM EST, cedel@redrose.net writes:
>
><< Jay Mercier wrote:
> >
> > Being fairly new to this business (5 years), many of my jobs have landed
> > simply because other piano tuners have not "showed up for the job."  I
> > had a customer complain last week that Mr. "B" not only didn't show up
> > once but after calling him and he apologizing and making sure he'd be
> > there next time, he also failed to show up the second time.  The
> > customer was irate because he waited around and lost some hours at work.
> >
> > I've heard this story from about 20 other customers too.  I've also
> > heard this from customers regarding other tuners.  And both tuners are
> > RPTs.
> >
> > Why does this happen?
>  >>
>
>I have obtained much of my work as a result of at least three tuners in my
>area who do not return phone calls.  I can't understand this either, but am
>grateful.  I even had on widow who left her husbands "piano tuning" ad in
the
>yellow pages for 4 years after he had passed away.  Go figure.
>
>Dick Day
>Marshall MI
>